By John Tuohy
The state safely moved 368 convicts today from Plainfield to a new location on the Near Eastside as part of the restructuring plan designed to increase space and save money. The inmates were sent from the Re-Entry Educational Facility to the site of the former Indiana Women’s Prison near Downtown Indianapolis.
It’s the third [...]

Its flu season and people are scrambling to find and get flu vaccines, not an easy feat when there is so much concern about the flu, especially Swine flu. It’s not easy to find doctors who have the vaccine in stock; many are already out and don’t know when to expect the next batch. The [...]

Late Monday, October 5, 2009, the Senate approved a bill that will allow prisons to petition the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) to use devices that jam cell phone airwaves as long as they don’t interfere with other legitimate communications.
Recently, the problem of cell phones being smuggled into prisons has reached state and national levels. Certain [...]

When people are sent to jail they face enough problems; life behind bars, separation from family and loved ones, personal safety, and a loss of many freedoms. This is the price for committing a crime. However, many prisoners also face other issues, such as mental health problems and drug and alcohol addiction. These are debilitating [...]

As states across the country struggle with rising costs, including those associated with prisons, some are deciding to actually let prisoners go. Take the state of Illinois for example. Governor Pat Quinn says 1,000 prisoners will be let out early in an effort to reduce costs.
Over the next few months only certain inmates will be [...]

When you get sent to prison you don’t get to bring your cell phone, but many prisoners are finding ways to get cell phones and this is becoming a problem. Cell phone use by inmates is used to run criminal activity like drug trafficking and gangs. They can also be used to intimate people on [...]

Have you ever heard of someone who upon getting released from jail, literally jumps back in? Well, it happened on September 1, 2009 in Brevard County, FL.
After spending two and a half years in prison in connection with a fatal shooting, a 24 year old inmate, wanted back in. He said threats had been made [...]

Most times we hear of how prisons cost too much; that housing prisoners for years upon years in state or federal run jails is too costly and where is the money supposed to keep coming from? This complaint is exacerbated by the fact that most state prisons are over packed – too many people are [...]

Once a person is sentenced to serve time in jail many of their rights are taken away and since each state has the right to monitor and decide how their prisons will be run, some states have taken away more rights for their prisoners than others.
Recently, Florida officials banned inmates from having online style listings [...]

Money makes the world go round. It’s a simple fact and although prison may be the only place where one doesn’t need money on a daily basis, when that person gets released he or she will most definitely need monetary funds as they enter back into the world as we know it.
As we all know, [...]